Acknowledgement of Country

The Wired Lab, with the Wiradjuri community and BAFTA award winning artist, Chris Watson, will present Country Calling (working title)

Participants speak passionately from the truth of their lived experience, in response to the question: ‘Who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?’

This grant enables individuals from the UK and Australia who are alumni of British Council Australia programmes or delegations to collaborate digitally with artists/companies from the other country on international projects. This programme aims to develop exciting cultural collaborations between arts and creative practitioners, and to support long-lasting relationships between Australia and the UK.

Melbourne becomes a playable city connecting music, games and fashion with public space. Inspired by the Watershed method, the program includes playful parklets, musical plants, nomadic urban play agents, pop-up street games and a three-hour augmented reality journey. Let’s play in public space again!

Envisioning the enterprise and entrepreneurial competencies needed for professional cultural leaders for the future – an online conversation. Curated by Goldsmiths, University of London and the National Institute of the Dramatic Arts, Sydney

A series of high quality online poetry workshops and masterclasses for emerging and established writers, plus poetry readings and talks with wide audience appeal, reflecting the issues that matter most in the 2020s.

NGV + British Council: A Musical Companion to Cerith Wynn Evan’s C=O=D=A

THE HULL VIGIL, a performance by WLDN/Joanne Leighton. With the Freedom Festival Arts Trust, Hull, UK. Every day for a year, at sunrise and sunset, a vigil will keep watch for one hour over the city of Hull from a bespoke Shelter. Over the course of the year, 730 people will contribute to this 365-day collective vigil. This timely, thought-provoking work by choreographer Joanne Leighton from Paris-based WLDN has been running continuously in Europe for the past 10 years.

The Biggest, Oldest and Rarest Objects only at Melbourne Museum, all the way from London, for the whole family to enjoy.

The National Photographic Portrait Prize has always drawn forth a candid, instructive expression of Australia. It’s a perennial Portrait Gallery and audience favourite for a reason.

Pilgrimage to Imago (Journey to a Primordial Mother/Self/Fly)

Fly – A Primordial Mother

Selecting the best UK music every week and sharing it with the world.

This new season of Diversity Arts Australia’s podcast, The Colour Cycle spotlights inspiring, critical and sometimes playful conversations with creative leaders and changemakers in Australia and the UK.

Ghost Tunes is an expanded concept album created by sound artists and writers from Australia and Scotland that considers the physical world as cultural swales and swirls around language, time and ecologies.

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale is thrilled to present the world premiere of Styx in conjunction with Photoworks (UK).
French artist Alix Marie delves further into her interest in water deities, and the intersection between the body, its representation, and an expansive idea of photography.